Entering a Clinical Trial: Is It Right for You?
Patients often have misconceptions about clinical trials that could influence their decision to participate. Dana-Farber, in collaboration with Brigham and Women's Hospital, Massachusetts General Hospital, and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, has produced an audiovisual program and educational booklet to dispel these misconceptions. Using their own words, patients and clinicians explain what clinical trials are and offer suggestions to help patients decide whether or not to enroll in a study.
View the Audiovisual Program: Entering a clinical trial: Is it right for you?
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What people are saying
"This is an honest and open account of clinical trials: why they are done, what people can learn, why patients should think about joining in - the pluses and minuses - the processes. The programme will really be able to help people make the right decision for them."
- Professor Sally Davies
Director of Research and Development
Department of Health, London
"Oh, it was great. You think you know everything about the mechanics of these trials and the video showed me a whole different layer."
- Mary Alice MacKay
Clinical trial participant
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
"This inspiring, upbeat video can truly help educate patients about clinical trials. The real-life patients in this work are proof that informed people are our best advocates to advance medical research and achieve the best possible clinical outcomes and patient satisfaction."
- George D. Demetri, MD
Director, Center for Sarcoma and Bone Oncology
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School
© Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, 2004.
